Every nb.org redesign, most URLs change. This usually
breaks any old NB release out there, which includes a few
hard-coded URLs to things like feedback, issues, etc.
We should set up a short list of permanent URLs which never
change, for use in the IDE.
I suggest putting them all at root level, eg like :
/contact.html
/issues.html
/faqs.html
For various reasons I don't think it is a good idea to
have the real content at those URLs (eg wouldn't work with
current site navigation infrastructure), but have those
URLs redirect to the right place.
Pls add any other required URLs here.
See also : issue 34127, issue 23850.

OK, thanks Jesse. Not sure that URLs to files on other
websites are appropriate for this issue ... I think www is
the site where pages move around the most, and hence needs
these non-moving URLs. Maybe module owners should create
similar fixed URLs on their module websites ?
So, looking at links to www
- excluding /updates/*;
- excluding links to http://www.netbeans.org/;
- excluding links to images/logo.gif (already has a "never
move" policy);
- excluding links to links that are already permanent-ised
in this issue, like /issues.html and /bugs.html
that leaves just 6 links :
--
Please report this at
http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html,\n\
core/src/org/netbeans/core/Bundle.properties
Please report this at
http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html, including a
copy of your ide.log file.\n\
openide/src/org/openide/Bundle.properties
See
http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/OpenAPIs/org/o
penide/doc-files/upgrade.html#3.5i-sep
openide/deprecated/src/org/openide/deprecated/Bundle.proper
ties
Please report this at
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/issues.html,\n\
translatedfiles/src/core/src/org/netbeans/core/Bundle_ja.pr
operties
Please report this at
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/issues.html, including a
copy of your ide.log file.\n\
translatedfiles/src/openide/src/org/openide/Bundle_ja.prope
rties
\ {0} \u4F8B\u5916\u60C5\u51B5\u53D1\u751F\u3002
\n\u8BF7\u901A\u62A5
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/issues.html, \u9644\u5E26
ide.log \u6587\u4EF6\u3002\n ide.log \u6587\u4EF6\u5728
{1}/system/ \u6587\u4EF6\u5939\u3002
translatedfiles/src/openide/src/org/openide/Bundle_zh.prope
rties
--
All but one of these ought to point to the /issues.html
URL which is aleady in place. I'll file issues requesting
changes to those properties files for each affected module.

Filed issue 34621, issue 34620, and issue 34617.
Use of these URLs should probably be documented somewhere,
so if a developer needs to link to the site in future they
know which URLs to use ... any ideas where that should go ?

I added notes about linking to these URLs, or in general
linking to www, to the web guidelines page at
http://www.netbeans.org/community/guidelines/web-
guide.html#linking Those notes will propagate to www in
~1hr.
Closing this issue; pls reopen with details if more such
fixed links are required.